Shusui Kotoku; Introduced and Translated by Michael H. Brown／ただジンPress／A6／42ページ

“Koutoku Shuusui (1871-1911) published his “confession” to his comrades, a rousing injection of anarchism into the socialist movement in late Meiji- era Japan and an appeal for a strategy of working class Direct Action, in the socialist daily The Commoners’ News on February 5, 1907. Later anarchists in Japan would dub him “the anarchist of direct action”, and in The Change in My Thinking, it is clear why he received such a moniker. Less a work of pure theory than a manifesto and call for his comrades to rouse themselves from an electoralism-induced trance, Koutoku, one of the most, if not the most, influential Japanese socialists of the time, laid out the reasons for his conversion to anarcho-syndicalism, argued that for the socialist movement to continue prioritizing an electoralist strategy would prove to be a dangerous trap, and urged his comrades to carefully reevaluate —root and branch—their strategies as socialists.”